Roy Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Roy, Utah: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

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Commute Time Burden in Roy: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Roy spend about 42 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 175 hours, about 7.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 11% more time on the road than the Utah average of 18.9 minutes each way, a difference of 2.1 minutes.

Roy holds about 1.2% of Utah's population but accounts for roughly 1.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Roy would save about 70 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,175 at the same national wage assumption used above.

Area	One-Way Commute	Daily Round-Trip	Yearly Time Spent	Estimated Yearly Cost	Local Road Traffic (VPD)
Roy	21.0 min	42.1 min	175 hrs/yr	$5,437	4,495
Utah	18.9 min	37.8 min	158 hrs/yr	$4,885	1,192
United States	22.4 min	44.8 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,790	1,355

The estimated yearly cost applies a single national rule of thumb (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics average hourly earnings), not a measurement of wages in this area - treat it as a rough estimate, not a paycheck figure. Local road traffic counts, vehicles per day on non-highway roads, come from proprietary Ticon and TrafficZoom data.

Roy Commute Map

On average, it takes 21.0 minutes to get to work in Roy. That's 6% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 16.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Roy

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Roy, versus 0.1% in Utah.

Commute Mode Trends in Roy, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Roy get to work, as a share of all workers aged 16 and over, across 16 U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) releases from 2009 to 2024. Each release is a 5-year estimate: the 2024 figures cover surveys taken from 2020 to 2024. Because neighboring releases share most of their survey years, the lines move gradually, and a sudden change such as the rise of remote work in 2020 spreads across several releases. Hover over or tap a line to highlight it, and use the legend to show or hide a mode. Driving starts hidden so the smaller modes stay readable.

Share of workers aged 16 and over, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Walked	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Other	Taxi
2009	93.1%	2.7%	1.6%	0.6%	0.6%	0.3%	1.2%	0.0%
2010	94.0%	2.2%	1.5%	0.3%	0.6%	0.1%	1.3%	0.0%
2011	93.3%	2.7%	1.8%	0.5%	0.4%	0.2%	1.3%	0.0%
2012	92.5%	2.6%	2.2%	0.6%	0.4%	0.2%	1.6%	0.0%
2013	92.7%	2.7%	1.9%	0.6%	0.1%	0.2%	1.7%	0.0%
2014	92.0%	2.9%	2.1%	0.9%	0.3%	0.2%	1.5%	0.0%
2015	91.4%	3.2%	2.2%	1.1%	0.3%	0.4%	1.3%	0.0%
2016	91.9%	3.1%	1.9%	0.9%	0.6%	0.5%	1.2%	0.0%
2017	91.9%	3.9%	1.6%	0.8%	0.5%	0.5%	0.8%	0.0%
2018	91.7%	4.5%	1.2%	0.8%	0.7%	0.5%	0.6%	0.0%
2019	92.5%	4.5%	1.0%	0.5%	0.5%	0.4%	0.7%	0.0%
2020	89.1%	8.1%	0.8%	0.7%	0.5%	0.2%	0.6%	0.0%
2021	85.7%	11.7%	1.0%	0.9%	0.2%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%
2022	82.9%	13.6%	1.5%	1.1%	0.3%	0.1%	0.6%	0.0%
2023	81.1%	15.3%	1.4%	1.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%
2024	80.2%	16.0%	1.8%	0.8%	0.5%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2010 at 94.0%. Overall it fell from 93.1% in 2009 to 80.2% in 2024, down 12.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Roy: its share of workers rose from 2.7% in 2009 to 16.0% in 2024, up 13.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 11.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Roy

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Roy?

The bars show when commuters in Roy leave home for work, as a share of everyone who commutes (people who work from home are not counted), from the 2024 ACS 5-year estimates. The thin violet marks show Utah for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM		8.3%
5:00-5:29 AM		7.6%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.7%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.1%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.9%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.4%
7:30-7:59 AM		10.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		8.1%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.9%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.1%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.5%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.2%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.5%

Roy Utah Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Roy is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.3% across Utah. Early starts are more common than in Utah: 22.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Utah: 42.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.3% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.0%) leave at 9 AM or later, which usually points to shift work, flexible hours or part-time jobs.

When people leave matters as much as how far they go. Rush-hour traffic shrinks how much ground a 20-minute trip covers, so a trade area drawn as a simple circle often takes in neighborhoods that customers or staff would never drive from and misses others that are an easy trip. A drive-time zone, also called an isochrone, outlines every place within a set number of minutes of an address, which makes it the more honest way to size a store's catchment, a hiring area or the commute from a new home.

See it for yourself on the interactive map: click any spot in Roy, pick a 5, 10, 15 or 30-minute drive and see the local demographics of the people who live within that exact drive time.

Is Roy Waking Up Earlier? Typical Departure Time, 2009-2024

Each line follows the typical (median) departure time: the moment by which half of commuters have already left home. Higher on the chart means a later start. Setting Roy next to Utah and the U.S. shows whether local mornings are drifting earlier or later than everyone else's. The figures span 16 ACS 5-year releases, so changes build up gradually rather than jumping from one year to the next.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Roy	Utah	United States
2009	7:25 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:20 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:21 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:17 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:18 AM	7:48 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:22 AM	7:48 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:26 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:28 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:28 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:30 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:25 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:24 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:20 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:21 AM	7:50 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:19 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:20 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Roy were on the road by 7:20 AM, 5 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:25 AM). That goes against the trend across Utah, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Roy now leave 18 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Roy has moved 5 minutes earlier.

How does Roy's commute time compare?

Metric	Roy	Utah	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.0 min	18.9 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	16.0%	17.6%	15.0%
Walked	0.8%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.8%	1.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Roy is 21.0 minutes, longer than the 18.9 minutes in Utah.

1.8% commute by public transit, higher than the 1.6% in Utah. 0.8% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Utah.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Roy, UT Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Roy, UT compares with the 1 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Roy, UT	39,212	21.0 min #2/2	16.0% #2/2	7:20 AM #1/2
Clinton, UT	20,426	20.8 min	18.7%	7:32 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Roy, Utah.

Is living in Roy, Utah good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 175 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,437 at a typical national wage. That's 11% more than the typical Utah commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Roy, Utah?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Roy, Utah. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.